Cars, light trucks that bid farewell in 2013

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In a major marketing shift, the space-age C30 was designed to draw a new type of buyer to Volvo - men, mostly urban and younger, with annual incomes of less than $100,000. In the end, electric and hybrid variants, and Volvo's pressing needs to update its core crossover and sedan models, could not save the C30 hatchback.

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